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Minneapolis | Heavyweight Podcast

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This is the full, timestamped transcript of "Minneapolis | Heavyweight Podcast", an episode of Heavyweight published February 5, 2026 (33 min, about 4,353 words). It mentions 17 people, works and ideas, including Ice King, Jonathan Goldstein, Yliss, Julio Cesar Sosa Celis, Indriani.

What this episode is about

The narrative explores a personal account of a woman in Minneapolis who witnesses a chaotic ICE raid, highlighting her emotional response and the shock of the scene as it unfolds. It reflects on the impact of government operations on daily life and the community's struggle to connect amid unfolding crises.

Key takeaways

  • In the chaos of crisis, even children find ways to process trauma through playfulness.
  • Masked aggressors may hijack a street, but community resilience can turn tension into a collective embrace.
  • When the world seems dark, kids remind us: laughter and rapping about yachts can shoehorn in joy.
  • A Tucker Carlson-led media narrative on ICE contrasts sharply with streets teeming with fear and vulnerability.
  • Conversations about safety become complex when innocence encounters harsh realities—what do we tell our children?

Who speaks in this episode?

What is discussed, and when

  1. – 5:00: Auggie, Ice King, Renee Mlin Good, Operation Metro Surge
  2. – 10:00: Auggie, Renee Mlin Good, Julian, Ice King
  3. – 15:00: Renee Mlin Good, Alex Jeffrey Prey, Jonathan Goldstein, Julio Cesar Sosa Celis
  4. – 20:00: Indriani, Yliss, Julio Cesar Sosa Celis, Danielle
  5. – 25:00: Darian Gap, Danielle
  6. – 30:00: Ice King, Indriani
  7. – 32:40: Jonathan Goldstein, Indriani, Eric Day, Emily Condan

Notable quotes from "Minneapolis | Heavyweight Podcast"

  • Here is Minneapolis where I live and the epicenter of what the Trump administration is calling Operation Metro Surge. Since it all began with the regular business of work, child care, and running a household, Emily and I.
    about Operation Metro Surge · at
  • And then somewhere in my head it clicked oh, this is an ice raid.
    about Ice King · at
  • She was shot about 40 minutes after I had that encounter about four blocks away.
    about Renee Mlin Good · at
  • Look for the helpers. And that's what I've always used with Augie. Look for the helpers. But Renee Good was a helper and Alex Prey was a helper.
    about Alex Jeffrey Prey · at
  • The man's name was Julio Cesar Sosa Celis. He was Venezuelan and he had no criminal record. There are different accounts of what happened that night, but in a nutshell, the federal government claims Julio had been.
    about Julio Cesar Sosa Celis · at
  • Hello. Since Julio and Indriani have been incarcerated, Ylles has been taking care of their three-year-old son, her grandson. Yliss has been in the US since 2023. But with the shooting, she fears that she and her family have become.
    about Yliss · at
  • When I ask why that is, Yliss just says political persecution and leaves it at that. Her daughter Indriani had already migrated to the US and made a home for herself and her…
    about Indriani · at
  • This episode was produced by Emily Condan and me, Jonathan Goldstein, as well as supervising producer Stevie Lane and senior producer Clea Holt.
    about Jonathan Goldstein · at

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

  • Jonathan Goldstein — Person · Host / narrator · 2 mentions · first at
    Narrates the reporting, conducts the visit/interview with Yliss, and is credited as producer.
  • Yliss — Person · Primary interviewee (family member in hiding) · 4 mentions · first at
    Indriani’s mother and Julio’s mother-in-law; caretaker of their child and narrator of the family’s migration journey and current fear.
  • Julio Cesar Sosa Celis — Person · Central subject (victim of ICE shooting) · 3 mentions · first at
    Venezuelan man shot in the leg by ICE; his case anchors the episode’s second half and the family’s aftermath.
  • Indriani — Person · Key subject (partner of Julio; daughter of Yliss) · 7 mentions · first at
    Partner of Julio and mother of their child; arrested after the shooting and later released, central to the family’s separation and reunification.
  • Renee Mlin Good — Person · Referenced victim (killed by ICE) · 6 mentions · first at
    Her killing is the inciting event that shapes the narrator’s household and community response and frames the escalation in Minneapolis.
  • Auggie — Person · Referenced child (host’s/Emily’s son) · 6 mentions · first at
    His school drop-offs coincide with ICE actions; his reactions illustrate the impact on children and family life.
    On Wednesday, January 7th, I had dropped Augi off at school, and I was driving down 36th, which is a oneway.
  • Alex Jeffrey Prey — Person · Referenced victim/activist figure (“helper”) · 2 mentions · first at
    Cited alongside Renee Good as a “helper,” used to underscore the moral inversion the narrator perceives (“they’re murdering the helpers”).
  • Eric Day — Person · Interpreter / immigration lawyer (credited) · 2 mentions · first at
    Accompanies the host to Yliss’s home; described as an immigration lawyer and later credited as interpreter.
    Factchecking by Andrea Lopez Cruado. My interpreter at Yamissa's house was Eric Day. Editorial help from Nadia Raymond.
  • Danielle — Person · Referenced family member (Yliss’s partner) · 3 mentions · first at
    Traveled with Yliss from Venezuela and is present in the home during the interview; part of the family unit affected by fear and hiding.
    She and her partner Danielle towed four little kids across South and Central America and through Mexico.
  • Emily Condan — Person · Producer (credited) · 1 mention · first at
    Credited as episode producer; also appears as the host’s spouse in the opening conversation (same name as credited producer).
    This episode was produced by Emily Condan and me, Jonathan Goldstein, as well as supervising producer Stevie Lane and senior producer Clea Holt.
  • Julian — Person · Referenced child (Auggie’s friend / child in household scene) · 2 mentions · first at
    Appears in the vignette about kids processing violence; his injury prompts a moment of shared vulnerability among the boys.
    Then the next day, Julian came over and Eli, Julian's dad, said something to me about, Oh, and you encountered them that morning in front of Augie. And so then Augie was Wait, what?
  • Byron Katie — Person · Referenced family member (Emily’s sister) · 1 mention · first at
    Texts about ICE showing up at Theo’s school, expanding the scope of events beyond the immediate neighborhood.
    While I was there, I got a text from Katie, my sister, telling me that ICE had showed up at Theo's school. Theo is our 14-year-old nephew. and that they had pepper-sprayed a crowd of.
  • Theo — Person · Referenced minor (nephew) · 1 mention · first at
    His school is reportedly targeted by ICE; used to show the broader community impact on students and teachers.
    While I was there, I got a text from Katie, my sister, telling me that ICE had showed up at Theo's school. Theo is our 14-year-old nephew. and that they had pepper-sprayed a crowd of teachers and students. So, she texted me.
  • Eli — Person · Referenced adult (Julian’s dad) · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned in a family conversation that inadvertently reveals to Auggie that his parent encountered ICE that morning.
    Then the next day, Julian came over and Eli, Julian's dad, said something to me about, Oh, and you encountered them that morning in front of Augie. And so then Augie was Wait, what?

Concepts & topics

  • Ice King — Concept · Core topic · 4 mentions · first at
    Central theme of the episode, discussing the actions and impact of ICE in Minneapolis.
  • Operation Metro Surge — Concept · Strategy · 1 mention · first at
    Described as the Trump administration's initiative in Minneapolis, central to the episode's narrative.

Places & events

  • Darian Gap — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at
    Mentioned as a dangerous part of the journey for migrants, highlighting the risks faced by Yliss's family.
    From Colombia to Panama, they passed through the incredibly dangerous rainforest known as the Darian Gap where a lot of people have died. The Dariian Gap is a roughly 60-mi…

Full transcript with timestamps

Pushkin. Hello. Hi, my wife. Hi, my husband. Um, how are you? I'm getting through.

Yeah. So, you wanted to talk? Um, I did. I feel like we haven't had much of a chance to connect over the last couple weeks because there's been a lot going on here.

Here is Minneapolis where I live and the epicenter of what the Trump administration is calling Operation Metro Surge. Since it all began with the regular business of work, child care, and running a household, Emily and I haven't really had a chance to sit down and actually talk. I knew she had a lot she wanted to tell me, so I asked her to start at the beginning.

Um, on Wednesday, January 7th, I had dropped Augi off at school, and I was driving down 36th, which is a oneway. There were, I don't know if it was six or eight vehicles coming directly toward me, going the wrong way down a oneway at full speed. And I really thought I was going to have a head-on collision. Then they just suddenly stopped and then a bunch of men started running out of the cars and they were all masked and all the vehicles were unmarked. My brain just wasn't connecting what was happening. And then I saw two women running toward this scene with with whistles.

And then somewhere in my head it clicked like, oh, this this is an ice raid. I didn't even know exactly what that meant, but I just felt so clearly like something wrong is happening. And so I parked and I jumped out. I ran up to the building as they were all pulling away. The woman who had a really little like fivepound dog, one of the ICE agents just swerved right at the dog

and I was really emotional because um I was still had a lot of adrenaline. Um I was coming on the wind and they almost hit me.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of the women there hugged me and uh she just kept saying um

No, I know. I said, "Who do they think they are?" Who do they think they are? Oh my gosh, it's just too much.

I mean, that's when everything just like exploded. Uh, I got home and, you know, I had news on the background and I saw that a woman had been shot dead. Um, and that turned out later that this was Renee Good. And she had just dropped her kid off from school, too. She was shot about 40 minutes after I had that encounter about um four blocks away.

Ice out now. I went to the vigil that night. Okay. There were a lot of people there. I think everybody there really felt an obligation to be there. While I was there, I got a text from Katie, my sister, telling me that ICE had showed up at Theo's school. Theo is our 14-year-old nephew. Um, and that they had pepper-sprayed a crowd of teachers and students. So, she texted me that and then wrote, "I have no idea how to process this with my child." When did I learn um um learn that ice was a thing?

When did you learn that ice was a thing? I don't Do you remember? No. Do you? And Auggie, you know, Auggie's nine and so it's that's been one of the really hard things here is to know what do you tell your kid? Um I've been trying to talk to him about it just as honestly as possible with trying to emphasize, you know, that he's safe. But even if he is safe, there's a lot of kids right now around this city his age who aren't. And that's how do you explain that? You know,

you told Auggie about Renee Good. Yes. And what was that like? I first told him that a woman had been shot by ICE. Then the next day, Julian came over and Eli, Julian's dad, said something to me about, "Oh, and you encountered them that morning in front of Augie." And so then Augie was like, "Wait, what?"

We are right now. Yeah, I'm okay. Um, but you wouldn't have stopped if I was in the car.

No. No, honey. And we talked about it for a couple minutes and then he said, "Okay, I think I think we need to stop talking about this now." And so I respected that, stopped talking about it.

So then the Thursday and Friday after Renee Good was killed, schools were cancelled across the city um because it just wasn't safe. Um, I stayed home with Auggie and some of his friends came over and uh, you know, throughout the day we would be play or they kids would be playing and they would just they'd be fine and then they would say it's so sad like this is so sad that Ice murdered somebody.

This is what this is what Augie's friends were saying. Yeah. Yeah. Um, and I actually have a really clear memory that day. We were working with the hot glue gun and Julian somehow cut his hand and the concern that they all just sort of rallied around him and were so worried about his hand.

Julian. Yeah. He's like the Mr. Tough Guy. I know. And then there was this moment after I bandaged it up that we all and I've never had a moment with the boys like this where we all sort of like hugged each other.

The boys went for this. They allowed this. Yeah. And I do think it was just like this moment of vulnerability that we were all feeling such a weight, you know, that it just allowed us to have this moment of coming together. It was really beautiful.

Wow. I mean, everything is completely overwhelming, but you still have to eat, you still have to walk the dog, and you know, kids are still kids. That next morning, I was laying in bed and Auggie came in um wearing a captain's hat and a suit jacket and started um rapping about yachts.

Yachts. I want I want one for my birthday. Yachts. I can I can get a cookie vac. They're really great yachts.

It was all about um going on yachts and having cookie vacayes. God, I'd love a cookie vacay right now.

We could all really use a cookie. I want a cookie vac. I want it for my birthday. Yes. You don't need to do that. Yes.

Tuesday. This is Tuesday the 13th. Less than a week since Renee Good had been killed. Um, once again, I had dropped Auggie off at school and I was driving home and suddenly all these vehicles start swarming around my car and I'm a little bit boxed in. Then I started hearing the whistles and so I decide to get out. There's ICE agents all over. They're going up to an apartment building yelling, "You got to open up the door." Um, and you know, the crowd is slowly growing, but pretty quiet. And then they come out of the apartment building and they have two guys who to me looked like children, early 20s at the oldest, but I'd be surprised if it was even that.

One of them is wearing a t-shirt and shorts even though it's, you know, very cold outside.

I mean, it's so cold. It's the kind of cold that, you know, you take your gloves off for a few seconds and your fingers just really hurt. Like, it is hard to be outside in this weather.

Yeah. Yeah. And when we see the kids, we just start screaming, "Shame on you. Shame on you." I'm a mom, you know, like shame on you is the words that come to mind. Um, and we're yelling, you know, they're kids and

kids, shame on you. Sorry, this is going to be the hardest part for me. Um, so everything escalated very quickly. It just becomes chaos where ICE agents are just pushing people, shoving people, kicking them, you know, they have them down in the ground. Um, I can't even describe the feeling where like literally three feet from me I see a man like just a Minneapolis guy on the ground and a agent just pepper spraying him straight in the face from 3 in away. And I mean, every part of you just wants to run and just like tackle that guy, but you know you can't. Um, and so you just yell because what else do you do? But just to stand there and see somebody brutalized like that, you just feel so powerless.

Are you okay? So, I'm standing on the corner and they're trying to get this car to go. This woman in a car and there's nowhere she can go. I mean, it was just chaos. And they're screaming at her. There's like 15 agents, you know, just surrounding her car, screaming at her.

They just broke the window. They broke the window in the car. They broke the window.

All of a sudden, they break her passenger side window. Then they go around to her side and forcibly pull her out of the car and she's screaming.

Um, and then they've just got her by all fours and start carrying her away. And then I see that they have a white-haired man that they are carrying by all fours. And um, they open the back door of a black SUV and literally like stuff him in. That's the only language I know how to use.

Sorry. So, they stuff him into the vehicle and then All right. There's flash bombs all over the place

and then the first I just hear a bunch of like p and I figure out that these are guess what are flashbangs. And then smoke just starts to pour out.

Smoke all over. And then it hits your throat first and it's starts to burn and you're starting to cough and you're like, "Oh, that's strong." And then it hits your face. The skin on your face and then your eyes

burning my eyes start to burn. And for a second you're like, "Oh, this hurts, but it's okay." Oh.

And then each second that passes, you're just like, "Oh, it's not okay. Oh, it's really not okay." And then you're just like [ __ ] Um, and then I just can't really move. I'm doubled over and I grabbed a fistful of snow to put on my eyes and I can't see in any way. And then I just feel like a hand reach out for me and grabs my hand and they start to just guide me away out of the gas. And then there's a guy there wearing a bandana and he says, "This is my house. This is my house. It's the most motan thing of all time."

We walk in the house. None of us can even see really. And he says, "I'm sorry it's so messy in in here. Thank you. That's much better. Good.

I had a bottle of water and we're pouring it over my eyes. Thank you very much for the hospitality. You know, there's that famous Mr. Rogers saying that when when trouble strikes, look for the helpers. And that's what I've always used with Augie. Look for the helpers. But you know, Renee Good was a helper and Alex Prey was a helper. Like they're murdering the helpers.

Coming up. After being shot in the leg by an ICE agent, Julio Cesar Sosa Celis became national news. Since then, his family has been forced into hiding. After the break, I pay them a visit. One week after Renee Good and a week and 3 days before Alex Prey, another person in Minneapolis was shot by ICE agents. He was at his home when it happened. He was shot in the leg. It wasn't fatal and the incident didn't get as much media attention. The man's name was Julio Cesar Sosa Celis. He was Venezuelan and he had no criminal record. There are different accounts of what happened that night, but in a nutshell, the federal government claims Julio had been targeted for arrest, that he fled during a car chase, and that when he was caught, he was shot by an ICE agent in self-defense.

The FBI says otherwise. Their investigation determined that ICE wasn't looking for Julio at all and that he was not a part of any chase. Julio's roommate was mistaken for someone else while driving and he got into a car chase with Ice. The roommate led the agents back to the house he and Julio shared with their partners and their babies. Eyewitnesses say the shooting wasn't self-defense, that the men were fleeing into the house when shots were fired. At the end of the night, Julio and his partner, Indriani were arrested.

But the story I want to tell isn't about the shooting itself. I want to tell the story of the family Julio and Indriani left behind, what their life was like before that night, and what it's been like ever since. So far, Julio and Indriani's family in Minnesota haven't spoken with any journalists. But it turns out I have a connection to Indriani's mom, Ylis. It was a very tenuous connection through friends of friends, but it was enough for me to be trusted. And so, one cold night, a week after the shooting, I text Yiss my photo so she could identify me through the front door's small window and I go over to talk.

Hi. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Since Julio and Indriani have been incarcerated, Ylles has been taking care of their three-year-old son, her grandson. Yliss has been in the US since 2023. But with the shooting, she fears that she and her family have become targets, even more so targets of ICE. So, she doesn't leave the house, not to grocery shop, not to go to work. She keeps the blinds drawn, the lights outside off. She says she prays that God will just make her house invisible. Yas. Yas. Jonathan. Jonathan.

Yes. Yes. I'm with my interpreter, Eric, who's not really an interpreter, but my former office mate, who works as an immigration lawyer. This is Eric. Nice. Eric.

The house is full of life. Four kids of her own, ages 9 through 14, and her three-year-old grandson, Julio and Indriani son. Once inside, one of the kids locks the door behind us. Since the shooting, even though her children have opened asylum cases and social security numbers, Yl has kept them all home from school. Her 14-year-old Alejandra attends class over video. I ask her if her teachers know why she hasn't been in class.

Yeah, but I like I didn't tell all my teachers, so my grades are going down. Oh,

so I'm scared about that, too. I'm sorry. I really want to go to school again, but my mom's like, "You need to stay here cuz the ice can take you and things like that, you know, but I really want to go to school again."

Y's 10-year-old son, Javier, walks over. I have a question. He has a question he wants to ask me. Yes.

Did you know when the ice thing's going to Oh, I wish I knew. I'm so sorry. Okay.

As her partner Danielle makes himself dinner and the kids come and go from the living room, Yeise tells me about her life before all of this, why she left Venezuela for the United States in the first place.

We were living hidden. My fear of returning is really strong. When I ask why that is, Yliss just says political persecution and leaves it at that. Her daughter Indriani had already migrated to the US and made a home for herself and her son in Minnesota. Yiss really missed them. To see them again, she and her family embarked on a difficult journey, mostly done on foot. She and her partner Danielle towed four little kids across South and Central America and through Mexico. We didn't have phone.

We didn't have money. I had I had some coins in that's it. We walked for two months,

sleeping in the street, eating what people would give us. We walked a lot. but always happy

with a lot of faith in being able to once again see my daughter and my grandson. On the way from Colombia to Panama, they passed through the incredibly dangerous rainforest known as the Darian Gap

where a lot of people have died. The Dariian Gap is a roughly 60-mi stretch of rainforest. It's the only gap in the Pan-American Highway. No road, not even a dirt trail. The area is filled with strong rivers, flash floods, and wild animals. There is no police. Many migrants are murdered and raped during passage. But of all the places they traveled through, Yeise says the parts of Mexico controlled by the cartels were the scariest. She describes how while trying to avoid the immigration authorities, her family escaped into the forest.

So three armed men came kind of out of the trees and they said nothing's going to happen. Give us your money. Give us your phones. I said, "I don't have money or phone."

Yis gestures towards her 12-year-old daughter who's sitting on the couch. She cried cuz she saw the guns.

And they said, "She better be quiet or we'll kill her." My son, he was curious about the guns. and they said, "If he looks at me again, I'm going to kill him."

They took all our clothes off, looking for to see if we had hidden money. When they didn't find anything, they let them go. Yis and Danielle had heard about a train that carried migrants from Mexico City to the American border. The train was referred to as Lebestia, the beast. It's also been called the train of death. Passengers ride on top of freight cars. Loss of limbs, mammings, even death occur as people try to board the moving train. The family was told by other migrant travelers where to wait for the train. They waited and waited.

Then comes this big train. Everyone starts cheering the train. And I saw a lot of people start running and running and running and But if it it's your will for us to get on this train, let it stop cuz the train moving. I I could get on and and my husband could get on, but the kids know have to jump on

clearly and and I couldn't jump and grab onto the train with holding two of my children and him holding the other two and if I fell that the train could kill me. When the train came to a full stop, Yis took it as a sign,

the last car of the train. There was a ladder and we climbed up very quick and we passed five days on the train. On top of the train like that. Mhm.

Yeah. on top of the tree. When we went through towns or villages, people would throw us food or cookies or

because we couldn't get down because if we got down the train could leave and we'd be stuck.

That train moved us through half of Mexico. And the kids, how are they? Yeah, we we tied them on. We tied the children down.

One just has to say, "I'm I'm going. I'm I'm moving forward." Through the cold at night and the heat during the day, Yl and her partners stayed awake, holding on to the children. Falling asleep meant running the risk of being shoved from the train or simply falling, which could mean instant death. So for 5 days she hung on. No bathroom, just a pot, no proper food, just what they could catch and no sleep. In this way, Ylis spent her birthday. She was turning 34 years old. The train finally stopped in Huarez. There people had been killed, children had been taken.

People had had their stuff stolen. And I thank God that we were people that were very blessed.

A man who saw the family get off the train offered to buy them food. Other people gave them drinks. Another man even gave them money. They all ate and finally walking distance from the US border, they slept. In the morning, US immigration admitted Ylles and the children into the US. They spent the night in a border patrol tent and were given paperwork to start the asylum process. Eventually, they were placed on a bus to Chicago. Yis's daughter, Indriani, came to greet her. It was Yliss's first time seeing her daughter in a year and a half.

Ran to each other and hugged and I grabbed my grandson. They were so little. Together they traveled back to Indani's new home in Minnesota where the kids enrolled in school and eventually Yliss found work cleaning houses and offices. Over the years they settled in and made a life for themselves. After the break, Yliss tells me about her second separation from her daughter and grandson. The night of Julio's shooting. Y was at work when she got her daughter's frantic video call. Andi was telling her that Ice was at the door.

She was hidden with her baby in her arms crying. And she was saying to me, "Mama, if they come in, they're going to kill us."

Teargaz had been thrown through the window. And so Yimissa's daughter and grandson got on the ground. They were phoning from under the bed.

I can show you the video. You can hear everything. Y pulls out her phone. She had recorded the call and she shows me the video.

They're going to kill us, man. I'm hearing shots. I asked where Julio and his roommate were while she was on the phone with her daughter.

Turns out they were also on the phone. They were there and they were talking to their mothers because in that moment they thought that they were going to kill them and they wanted to say goodbye to each of their mothers. Y says that her daughter rightfully didn't open the door, but ice broke the door down. While she's telling the story, a toddler runs in. He's brighteyed and wearing a little football jersey.

Is Is this your grandson? Hi. Hello. Saying the police took his mom. Julio. He's talking about how the the bomb came through the window and they shot his dad.

Julio Grande. He's talking about the It smelled bad. The gas. It It smelled ugly. Smelled bad.

Did it hurt your eyes? I didn't like I didn't like hit the door. They hit the door hard.

Emily says her grandson keeps talking about that night. He still has nightmares. He sleeps with me and I hear when he wakes up at night crying crying. Mom, he's he's smaller.

To flee political persecution from one country, the family underwent a deathdeying journey to another country only to be persecuted by that new country's government. Could you ever have imagined that it would get this bad that it would get like this?

No. United States appeared to me a beautiful country. In its four seasons, the cold, the heat,

I like the heat more. That first winter, Emilies wore gloves and hats indoors. Wherever she went, she carried around a space heater that had been gifted to her. But seeing how much the kids enjoyed the snow, the winter has grown on her. I feel good here.

We came to work. We came for the good of our children. Truly, you guys in next summer are invited to eat at my house. If I'm here,

if everything's mama, we're going to eat really well. On Tuesday, Julio appeared in court. To counter the federal government's narrative, lawyers presented photographs showing a bullet hole through the front door of Julio's house and a bullet hole in one of the bedrooms between a mattress and a crib. The judge ordered Julio's release, but when Julio left the courthouse, ICE agents were waiting for him outside. He's now back in detention. Indriani was released last week. On the morning she returned, her son was still sleeping. When she woke him, he didn't recognize her at first, but then he hugged her. Now he doesn't want to leave her side. He's afraid Ice will take her again. Yas still hasn't left the house, and her kids have yet to return to school.

This episode was produced by Emily Condan and me, Jonathan Goldstein, as well as supervising producer Stevie Lane and senior producer Clea Holt. Factchecking by Andrea Lopez Cruado. My interpreter at Yamissa's house was Eric Day. Editorial help from Nadia Raymond. Special thanks to Melissa Redfield, Ben Natafhaffrey, and Daphne Chen. Sarah Bugare makes the episode with music by Emma Munger. We'll be back in your feed in a few weeks.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Minneapolis | Heavyweight Podcast"?

Jonathan Goldstein (Host), Emily (Guest), Yliss (Guest), Eric (Guest).

What is "Minneapolis | Heavyweight Podcast" about?

The narrative explores a personal account of a woman in Minneapolis who witnesses a chaotic ICE raid, highlighting her emotional response and the shock of the scene as it unfolds. It reflects on the impact of government operations on daily life and the community's struggle to connect amid unfolding crises.

What is mentioned in this Heavyweight episode?

17 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Ice King, Jonathan Goldstein, Yliss, Julio Cesar Sosa Celis, Indriani, Renee Mlin Good. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Minneapolis | Heavyweight Podcast"?

The episode runs 33 min; the transcript is about 4,353 words in 83 timestamped sections.

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